Admit it.  Half of everything you know about Neanderthals… comes from the GEICO Commercials.

You think of Neanderthals as hairy looking lunkheads with prominent foreheads … blurting things like MMMNMH.

But there’s a new body of scientific evidence that indicates Neanderthals might have been more like the mango-salsa nibbling… Geico caveman wearing  tennis whites.   In short… Neanderthals are getting a makeover.

Examining an intact skull 130-thousand years old… they were able to reconstruct a 3D model of the Neanderthal ear… the evidence shows… they could hear much like we do… a surprise that means they were capable of forming the sounds that make up human speech.   Difficult sounds like “th” -  Thhhhh.   There’s no indication if they had the mental ability… TH might have just been Thuhhhh…

or they might have had a thesaurus worth of speech.  We don’t know  Recent disocveries show they made cave art.  They worse jewelry and buried their dead.  So like the Geico commercials… they’re smarter than we thought.  But why should you care?   Because  new research shows that if you carry a specific gene handed down from the Neanderthals… you have a greater risk of severe covid.

So get the vaccine.  It’s so easy ….  

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